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TIL the US ranks #1 in private gun ownership. Private citizens own almost 90 times more guns than the US military.

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MewYm TIL that regardless of method, there is a right and wrong order for tying your shoelaces, and doing it wrong results in a "granny knot" that makes your laces come undone much more easily.
d8l8Q TIL the NASA Voyager probes that are currently exploring interstellar space have the computing power of a standard key fob. Science is amazing.
yvxJ TIL that horseshoe-crab blood, at $60,000/gallon, is valued to such an extreme degree because it is not only employed worldwide in bacterial contamination tests, it is also used in testings for every single drug approved by the FDA, making it a $50 million/year industry.
7rdaX TIL mail-in ballots work
dDxQZ TIL that the 'Nuclear Gandhi' bug in Civilization never existed, has been dismissed by the developers and was just a urban legend/mandela effect.